- Published on October 8, 2025
- In AI Features
OpenAI’s Trillion-Token Club Exposes Who’s Leading at AI
The heaviest users are established, product-heavy companies quietly embedding AI across operations.
Image by Nalini Nirad
- By Mohit Pandey
OpenAI recently released a list of its top customers — 30 companies and individuals that have each processed more than a trillion tokens using its models.
To give that some context, that’s hundreds of billions of words across thousands of applications, all running continuously. Every query, every document summary, every chatbot reply counts. Trillions of times.
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The first thing the list shows is that AI at scale isn’t happening in startups. The heaviest users are established, product-heavy companies quietly embedding AI across operations. Uber, Duolingo, Salesforce, Notion, Shopify, T-Mobile, Zendesk, Canva, Datadog, Mercado Libre — these names dominate.
A few startups like CodeRabbit, Cognition, OpenR
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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